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RandyT:


--- Quote from: Avery on September 01, 2005, 12:57:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: RayB on August 30, 2005, 11:24:02 pm ---Just think about this... If "patents" existed in the stone age, we never would have moved beyond the discovery of fire, let alone "the wheel".


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Compare and contrast: Patents expire after a scant 15 years.  Copyrights are rapidly becomming eternal.


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Actually, I think it's 17 years in the U.S.

But I agree.  You can develop the cure for cancer and you can only protect it for 17 years.  Record yourself farting into a kazoo to the tune of "mary had a little lamb", and your great grandchildren can sue for royalties.

Anyone else see a problem with this?

RandyT

Patent Doc:

Utility Patents last 20 years from the ealiest filing date with additional time awarded for delays on the part of the patent office.  Design patents are 15 years.  This was a utility patent.\

Patent Doc

RandyT:


--- Quote from: Patent Doc on September 01, 2005, 07:10:11 pm ---Utility Patents last 20 years from the ealiest filing date with additional time awarded for delays on the part of the patent office.  Design patents are 15 years.  This was a utility patent.\

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Thanks for the clarification.  I guess the "!7 years" that I keep hearing comes from the fact that it often takes 2-3 years from the date of filing before a patent is granted. 

I also just read here that design patents last for 14 years from the time they are granted.  Is this taking into account the shorter approval times for design patents (I.e. perhaps 15 years from the filing date - 1 year approval time = 14 year validity?)

Just trying to figure out why all the discrepancies in the numbers I keep hearing.

Thanks,
RandyT



elvis:


--- Quote from: xonix_digital on September 01, 2005, 11:30:48 am ---So what do we do? Where do we go from here?
I can't be letting a money-hungry company take over OUR industry.

Lets start writing emails to the president!!!  ;D

-=XD=-

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I assume that post was made in total sarcasm.  At least I hope it was.

Your president (and most of his family) are board members of a dozen of the world's most money hungry bastard corporations, all of which are extremely pro US-style IP/patents/copyright (even trying to enforce that rubbish on other countries that they do business in, despite having no political presence).  I seriously doubt they give a flying turd about any of us and our concerns.


xonix_digital:


--- Quote from: elvis on September 01, 2005, 10:06:38 pm ---

I assume that post was made in total sarcasm. At least I hope it was.

Your president (and most of his family) are board members of a dozen of the world's most money hungry bastard corporations, all of which are extremely pro US-style IP/patents/copyright (even trying to enforce that rubbish on other countries that they do business in, despite having no political presence). I seriously doubt they give a flying turd about any of us and our concerns.


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Ehhhh... I'd say it was about half and half.

<breakdown>
<not sarcasm>
"So what do we do? Where do we go from here?
I can't be letting a money-hungry company take over OUR industry."
</not sarcasm>
<sarcasm>
"Lets start writing emails to the president!!!"
</sarcsasm>
</breakdown>

...

I hope this helps.

-=XD=-

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